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Psychiatry-UK 2020-09-03 Person 5 5 0

I was assessed by Dr Iyas Assalman via Psychiatry UK and had an excellent experience with him. His questioning was incisive enough to rule out other possible conditions or causes of my symptoms, but still supportive. He treated my accounts with credibility. Having done some research into his credentials it was clear that he had significant expertise with adult ADHD patients (which was what I needed) and indeed he did. I wanted to talk to someone with specialist knowledge but I didn't know whether the assessment itself would be invalidating or emotionally difficult. It wasn't at all--he was kind and an excellent listener. My experience so far with Psychiatry UK is still ongoing because I have yet to meet with a titration nurse to discuss my medication (they organise the private prescription). However, my experience so far has been super efficient and straightfoward. I could be assessed within a week and the fees, while expensive, were comparatively very reasonable, I guess as a result of the service being online. If you are like me, and you are wondering whether a formal diagnosis is worth getting--honestly, just do it. The validation of a lifetime of unhelpful to damaging behaviours alone is worth the cost of admission and it is hard to imagine any treatment being as powerful as knowing that these things were not your fault.